MrBeast’s 8 Years of Failure

You know who MrBeast is, right?

Real name Jimmy Donaldson, he’s the biggest individual YouTuber in the world with 240 million subscribers 🤯

He was recently interviewed on a podcast, where he said…

I had so many years of trying and failing, trying and failing that I eventually accepted that I was just going to try and fail forever.

I started uploading videos at 11 and I was 19 when things started to hit. 

8 years of trying.

💬 Mike Donovan tweeted in response…

Compare that to most people’s overall lack of persistence and their attitude towards failure.

– Most people have idea, never act
– If they act but fail, they give up very quickly
– Few people maybe on Earth would continue to stick with something after 8 years of failure 

It’s important here to be aware of survivorship bias 🧐

There are probably tons of other YouTubers who failed for 8 years straight and didn’t eventually succeed.

But we rarely hear their stories.

Still, it’s safe to say that MrBeast would never have succeeded if not for those 8 years of trying and failing.

Check out his first video on YouTube: Worst Minecraft Saw Trap Ever??? 👀

Nothing special. You could even say it’s a terrible video.

Here’s his 100th video, posted a couple of years later…

That’s not much better, and he only had 730 subscribers at the time 😕

I believe his first video to go viral was this one in 2017…

• I Counted To 100,000!…

That’s literally him sitting in a chair for 40 hours straight, counting to 100,000 😱

And he’d spent several years before that uploading hundreds of videos, trying out lots of different formats.

With that level of persistence and experimentation, it’s no wonder he became successful 💪

Whatever it is you’re trying to achieve, persist and experiment for longer than most people think is reasonable.

There’s no guarantee you’ll be successful, but you’ll massively increase your chances 📈